Do you know of Crosby ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Crosby. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Crosby.
Our sources for Crosby (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Crosby other than they indicate that Crosby would be found somewhere in Cocke County, Tennessee.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Crosby ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Crosby.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named Crosby.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Grainger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Crosby [Grainger County].
- Grainger County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Crosby [White County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Concordia Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Crosby [Concordia Parish].
- Maryland
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Crosby [Kent County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Crow Wing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Crosby [Crow Wing County].
- Mississippi
- Amite County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Crosby [Amite County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Crosby [Clark County].
- New York
- Yates County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Crosby [Yates County].
- North Dakota
- Divide County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Crosby [Divide County].
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Crosby [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Crosby.
- Pennsylvania
- McKean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Crosby [McKean County].
- South Carolina
- Abbeville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Crosby [Abbeville County].
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Crosby [Harris County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Crosby [Davis County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- Kitsap County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Crosby [Kitsap County].
- West Virginia
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Crosby [Clay County].
- Wyoming
- Hot Springs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Crosby [Hot Springs County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crosby ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Crosby:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Crosby - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Cocke County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Cocke County.
| Bison | Mae |
| Broad | Meyeres |
| Costner | Natural Bridge |
| Driskill | Paint Rock |
| Peanut | |
| English | Phillips |
| Punkton | |
| Givens | |
| Rankin's Depot | |
| Help | Reedtown |
| Lemon's Gap | Sardis |
| Sutton |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Crosby could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |